Florent Boffard

Florent Boffard has been invited to major festivals (Salzburg, Berlin, Bath, Aldeburgh, La Roque d’Anthéron, etc.) and has performed under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, Leon Fleisher, and Peter Eötvös with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, among others.
As a soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 1988 to 1999, he worked with the most prominent composers of our time and premiered works by Boulez, Donatoni, and Ligeti, among others.
In 2010, he presented the program “Chopin, une écoute aujourd’hui” live on Arte at La Folle Journée in Nantes. His concern for helping the public better understand the contemporary repertoire has led him to lead numerous workshops and concert presentations, especially at the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron, the Aldeburgh Festival, and the Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo. He also wrote the film Schoenberg, le malentendu, which accompanied his recording of Schoenberg’s piano works published by Mirare in 2013. This recording was awarded “5 Diapasons” by Diapason magazine and selected as “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone.His other recordings include Boulez’s Structures for two pianos with PierreLaurent Aimard (DGG) and Fauré’s Violin Sonatas with Isabelle Faust (Harmonia Mundi). In 2021, he created and recorded Antiphonie by P. Boulez on a disc that brought together Beethoven, Berg, and Boulez (Mirare).
In 2001, the Forberg-Schneider Foundation (Munich) awarded Florent Boffard its Belmont Prize for his commitment to contemporary music. He has been a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. Since 2016, he has been a piano professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and from the 2024-2025 academic year, he will be the director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Piano at the Reina Sofía School of Music.